It’s the time of the year when the moon cake starts to appear everywhere here in China. The stores are covered with them and it feels like it’s all you should eat now. I myself am not a great fan of the moon cake, but if someone offers me one I feel like I have to take it. So even if I won’t buy them for myself I have the feeling I’ll have had more than enough before the festival is over. There are some that taste better than the others; it all depends on what filling they have. Even if I would love the mooncakes, I think it’s a bit like Christmas and all the food that comes with that holiday. My mother always makes to much food and we end up eating leftovers for a whole week after. When I finally return home I’m so grateful that it’s a whole year until I have to stuff my stomach with the Christmas food again.

Earlier this week I read an article about China’s biggest mooncake being made in Shenyang. Weighing over 13 ton and measuring 8.5 meter in diameter it took over 20 hours to create. The time spent resulted in a mooncake with ten different fillings. Now the cake is being sold in pieces all around China and you can even order one and have it delivered to your friends and relatives.  The huge cake is called “China’s no. one full moon”. I guess there will be more than just one full moon this year.

The moon festival is a time for families to get together and celebrate. The ones who can’t, at least have the same bright moon to look upon and share from where ever they are.  I’ll might have a moon cake and look up in the sky, on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, think of my family far away and make a wish… (That there won’t be anymore mooncakes until next year).

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